Wux: UNIX Tools under Windows

Wux is a port of Unix tools to the Microsoft Windows environment. It is based on a library providing a Unixcompatible set of system calls on top of Windows. Unix-derived tools run in parallel, communicating using the Unix traction. All processes are run within an application template that gives them basic Windows compatibility such as input and output windows and an icon. The performance of the system is comparable to that of Unix ports to the PC architecture. 1 Motivation The Unix operating system offers a wide variety of tools that can be used as building blocks or autonomous units for application development. Although these and similar tools can be ported to other environments [KP76, Gor93], their usability is often impaired by the lack of the glue elements available under Unix: multitasking and interprocess communication using pipes. Specifically, tool ports to the widely used MS-DOS system have to rely on serialised process execution and pipes implemented using inefficient interm...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1994
• Where: USENIX
• Authors: Diomidis Spinellis
• Keywords: Operating System, Tools, UNIX, USENIX 1994, Windows